cultural and universal structure. While speakers the world over struggle to achieve
intelligibility, they do so in culturally arranged ways.

3. CONCLUSION

Language socialization research is committed to articulating interfaces between language,
mind, and society by exploring the role of language in human development and socialization. Our perspective pushes research on children's pragmatic competence beyond the
bounds of children's capacity to perform particular actions and participate in particular
activities towards an integrated cultural account of children as members of communities
with histories, values, ways of understanding the world and organizing their identities and
interactions. This includes culturally-specific theories and practices surrounding child
development. While language socialization is centrally engaged in the close analysis of
perfectly ordinary recurrent language practices involving language and cultural apprentices, the field is more broadly dedicated to situating and visualizing the specific linguistic
and interactional structures that constitute such practices in terms of culturally universal
and particular processes and meanings.

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